Toward Political Reconfiguration

The year 2020 in Cameroon has been marked by a noticeable widening of the gap between political parties with some being loyal to republican institutions and the others that have been threatening the very foundations of the State and he who incarnates them.
The political configuration in the country is therefore drifting from the hitherto ruling party and its allies on the one hand and some opposition political parties on the other hand. The noticeable divide now is between republican political parties that stand for peace, unity, progress, integration and national cohesion and those that that instigate hatred, tribalism and disrespect of republican institutions. 
Communication Minister and Government’s Spokesperson, René Emmanuel Sadi in a press release following the election of Regional Councillors on December 6, 2020 stated challenges to the electoral process. One of the challenge he said, was, “calls for election boycott by political parties losing steam or having an insurgent agenda….” Talking on specific terms, Minister Sadi cited the case of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM) of Professor Maurice Kamto that called an insurgency on September 22, 2020 with the intention to topple republican institutions including President Paul Biya who incarnates them. The actions of this political party constitutes a drift from democratic principles in which legitimate and legal power comes from the ballot box.
The vast majority of political parties in Cameroon despite their different political ideologies, starting from the ruling Cameroon...